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...strategies to befriend simple people—a slow-witted figurehead, two tax cuts for the rich masquerading as generous lump-sum refunds for working folks and two crusades against the “evil” worshippers of Allah—the Bush administration sacrificed one of its best assets when it decided to make a big to-do about its alliance with the religious right. For two years the King of All Media galvanized a considerable audience of political dummies in the president’s support. But their differences on fundamental peacetime social issues like abortion...
Gaining the girls’ trust was essential if Levine was to learn anything meaningful about their lives. So she did what any girl wanting to befriend another would do: she shimmied alongside them at parties and joined them for kosher pizza, and was soon enough sitting beside the girls’ parents at the dining table as their dinner guest. The fact that the girls were enthralled with Levine’s secular life didn’t hurt, either...
LEANN RIMES A tale about a shy and skittish young female jaguar, the pop-country singer's Jag draws on Rimes' experience getting picked on as a kid. Jag never wins a Grammy, but she does befriend some interesting cats...
...Friends: Relationships Across the Lifespan in the 21st Century (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002). Americans come of age sharing soccer fields and video games, roaming the Internet together, occupying the same dorms at college and then winding up as peers at work. Not only are there more opportunities to befriend members of the opposite sex, there are also more reasons to get along outside a romantic context. "A big basis of friendship is commonality," says Monsour, "and today the different sexes have more in common as they go through the life cycle, which becomes a catalyst and incentive to cross-sex friendships...
Second floor resident Meghan R. Sheding ’03 remembers Pennypacker as a “really open community.” Situated furthest from the Yard, Pennypacker, with its central staircase and college-style corridors, forced neighbors to befriend one another. “Packcest is a term that we often use,” laughs Emily...